U.S. Urged to Act on Internet Freedoms

By

Geoffrey A. Fowler and

Loretta Chao

Updated March 25, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Google Inc. told legislators that the U.S. government must support Internet freedoms, as Congress weighs bills that would deepen the government's role in advancing free expression on the Internet globally.

"Internet censorship is a challenge that no particular industry—much less any single company—can tackle on its own," Google's director of public policy Alan Davidson said at a hearing of the Congressional-Executive...